Deep state milieu

Deep state milieux are informal, clandestine gatherings to meet and arrange business. These organs of the deep state are created and governed by deep politicians. Like criminal syndicates, some are ephemeral, some perennial. They have varying procedures and protocols, but are generally characterised by the secrecy required by agents of the deep state.

Deep state milieu  (third rail)
Interest of	ISGP
Informal, clandestine to a greater or lesser degree. Organisations and venues of the deep state, created and governed by deep politicians. Like criminal syndicates, some are ephemeral, some perennial. They have varying procedures and protocols, but are generally characterised by secrecy and frequented by agents of the deep state.

Deep state milieux are environments where deep politicians can meet and conduct deep political business. They vary in terms of secrecy from the relatively public (such as the CFR) to more secretive groups such as Le Cercle or the Club de Berne. Some have formal meetings and minutes (such as the Bilderberg), others are careful to commit as little as possible to paper - making them hard to track. The examples listed below are almost all international in nature.

“one of the tendencies of such groups is for their members to "play musical chairs", changing place frequently on the raft of names sponsoring an organization... [so] sharing a Board membership with someone does not necessarily imply intimate knowledge of the other's various activities.”
David Teacher

Attendance

The 2016 Cercle meeting in Washington, (Click to enlarge the photo)

Deep state milieux reflect the patriarchal Western societies from which they usually arise - they are typically full of older Caucasian men. The first Bilderberg, for example, was exclusively male. While no longer 100% male, a photo from the 2016 Cercle meeting in Washington shows a large majority of men.

In order to secure continuity of the institutions, some younger men are admitted, either on a trial basis or occasionally more permanently. Similarly, skin tone is predominantly pale rather than dark, although nowadays this may be less a reflection of institutionalised racism as much as on low social mobility and the ancestral basis of admission to such groups. Kwasi Kwarteng, for example, believed to have been chairman of Le Cercle from 2017-2018, is of African descent although his educational background is more standard for a deep state operative: Eton College, University of Cambridge, Harvard University. The previous chair, Nadhim Zahawi, was born in Iraq, but grew up in the UK and was made Minister for COVID-19 Vaccine deployment in November 2020.

Media coverage

A very rare mention of Le Cercle by corporate media.

As of 2019, most deep state milieux are third rail topic‎s which the commercially-controlled media have next to nothing to say about. Where the group does have a public-facing narrative, corporate media reliably promotes this. Often such groups are described as "think tanks".

Occasional stories do get published however which are a source of information about these groups. One such was a 1997 article by The Independent which mentioned about Jonathan Aitken's dismissal as Chairman of Le Cercle.

Bilderberg

One exception is the Bilderberg, which since around 2000 was the subject of intense efforts at exposure by independent online activists. It now publishes a guest list just before each meeting and is mentioned reliably in commercially-controlled media, albeit uncritically.

An illustrative 2011 piece from the BBC was entitled Bilderberg mystery: Why do people believe in cabals?. It quoted David Aaronovitch (later exposed as a member of the UK deep state's Integrity Initiative) as stating that the Bilderberg is "really an occasional supper club for the rich and powerful".

 

Examples

Page name	Start	End	Description
Adelaide Club	1863		Exclusive Adelaide club for members of the Adelaide Establishment.
Albright Stonebridge Group	26 April 2001		Economic Hit Men
American Australian Association	1948		A group designed to create a cadre of influential Australians loyal to the United States
Australian Club (Sydney)	1838		The oldest establishment club in Australia
BIS	17 May 1930		The central bankers' central bank - nothing to see here.
Bilderberg	29 May 1954		Long subject to a strong media blackout (almost never reported in newspapers before around 2010), protected by national police, the Bilderberg group holds an annual meeting of approximately 130 bankers, political & military leaders, CEOs of multinational corporations, editors and royalty. Meetings are firmly off the record, although increasingly leaky.
Bohemian Grove	1878		A US deep state milieu in Northern California.
Bullingdon Club	1780		An Oxford university dining club with a habit for inebriation and subsequent property destruction. A UK equivalent of the US Skull and Bones fraternity, which has had a large number of establishment insiders as members over the years.
Carnegie Cyber Policy Initiative			WEF connected Cyberterrorism/Preparation
Chatham House	1920		A key organ of the UK Deep state
Christian Democracy (Italy)	1943	1994	From 1946 until 1994, the DC was the largest party in the Italian Parliament, governing in successive coalitions.
Clandestine Planning Committee	1951		Together with the Allied Clandestine Committee, coordinates the Operation Gladio 'stay behind' groups.
Club de Berne	1969		Shadowy group of intelligence agencies of the 28 states of the European Union (EU), Norway, Switzerland and Israel etc
Club of Rome	April 1968		Environmentalism with more than a hint of misanthropy
Committee of 300
Corsair Club		1913	Founded by the head of the US deep state over a century ago, the Corsair Club was a private dining clubs. It gathered 12 members gathered for off the record conversations, presumably about deep political intrigues. It is not known to have survived J. P. Morgan's death in 1913
Council on Foreign Relations	1921		A long established and relatively public organ of the US deep state.
Council on the Future of Europe	2011		A part of Nicolas Berggruen's network
Covington & Burling	1919		Washington DC law firm with deep state connections
Ditchley	1958		Another set of private meetings...
Ditchley/Canada	1981		The Canadian arm of Ditchley
Ditchley/UK	1958		The UK branch of the transatlantic deep state Ditchley Foundation
Ditchley/US	1964
Dutch Minister of State	1806
Dutch Round Table	1901		Dutch Round Table, a gathering every six weeks of important people in politics, business and the civil service
Economic Club of New York	1907		Bringing business people, economists and others together for discussions of economic, social and other public issues. Lots of Bilderbergers.
Elcano Royal Institute	26 November 2001		Group headed by Charles Powell of the Integrity Initiative, with staff including José Ignacio Torreblanca, also a member of the II Spanish cluster.
European Council on Foreign Relations	2007		Shares members with the Integrity Initiative's Spanish Cluster
European Documentation and Information Centre	1952	1990	Transnational network between European conservative politicians. Used by Francoist Spain to end its international isolation.
European Forum Alpbach	1945		Conference "connecting international decision-makers from all sectors of society with an interested audience and committed young people".
European Movement International	July 1947		Lobbying association that promotes European integration. In its first few decades it received massive funding and attention from the CIA, and the personnel is intimately tied to the Bilderberg group.
French Institute of International Relations	1979		A "national think tank" founded by Thierry de Montbrial.
French-American Foundation	1976		A long established and relatively public organ of the US to control French politics.
Global Counter Terrorism Forum	22 September 2011		A club that was started just at the start of the Arab Spring. Calls itself "Informal, apolitical, multilateral." Interestingly, Saudi Arabia, the US & Colombia are members Iran and Israel aren't.
Global Panel Foundation	1989		NGO with members who are mostly people with deep ties to the intelligence community, working behind the scenes promoting international cooperation with regard to decision-making and implementation processes.
Grande école			Fewer than 500 graduates of these elite schools dominate the highest echelons of business and politics, with an unaccountable and unsackable "old boys' network" "that makes the British government and business Britain appear a model of social diversity."
Harvard/Kennedy School	1936		Harvard school used by the CIA to recruit vast amounts of high-profile or soon-to-be-high-profile foreign leaders.
Hudson Institute	1961
Institute for Regional Security	2014		Spooky Australian think-tank
Institute of Public Affairs	1943
Integrity Initiative/Cluster			Metastases from the IfS/II. Covert cells with a single leader, been used to exert clandestine influence from the London HQ, for example to promote particular opinions or to smear people it deems undesirable.
Joint Special Operations Command			Performs special operations worldwide, including inside the United States itself, its soldiers operating like the CIA, often alongside them in covert status.
LSV Minerva	1974		A prestigious Dutch elite fraternity
LUISS	1974		Predecessor was a founded by Félix Morlion to train anti-communist cadres on behalf of the Vatican and the CIA.
Le Cercle	1952		A deep state milieu set up around the same time as the Bilderberg, but smaller & far more secretive, attended especially by spooks, deep politicians and editors. Members promote their hawkish agenda by otherwise subverting the democratic process, apparently brokering weapons deals and possibly setting up false flag attacks. Their war making is also ideological - distributing propaganda to stoke fear of communism, promoting the "war on terror" etc.
Le Siècle	1944		A long established "bipartisan" network in the French establishment.
Liberal Democratic Party	1955		From 1955 the party has been in power in Japan almost continuously
M100 Sanssouci Colloquium	2005		German media conference with heavy deep state agenda
Melbourne Club	1838		Australian deep state milieu
Milner Group/Inner Circle			A deep state milieu of great importance around a century ago, when the Milner Group was the de facto UK Deep state.
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Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:The Secret Society That Rules The World	Article	7 November 2018	Bas Spliet	In his 1999 campaign autobiography, President George W. Bush mentioned his membership in passing: "My senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can’t say anything more."
File:Rogue Agents (3rd edition, 2011, full).pdf	book	2011	David Teacher	A book about the activities of the covert European groupings responsible for the realisation of the European Union between the end of World War II and the mid 1990's.
File:Rogue Agents (4th edition, 2015, full).pdf	book	2014	David Teacher	A book about the activities of the covert European groupings responsible for the realisation of the European Union between the end of World War II and the mid 1990's
File:Rogue Agents - the Cercle and the 6I in the Private Cold War 1951 - 1991 by David Teacher (5th edn, 2017).pdf	book	2017	David Teacher	A book about the activities of the covert European groupings responsible for the realisation of the European Union between the end of World War II and the mid 1990's.

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